These people were coming toward Pine Ridge agency, and when they were almost on the agency they were met by the soldiers and surrounded and finally taken to the Wounded Knee creek, and there at a ...

New legislation could mean full ownership of Wounded Knee Massacre site for Lakota tribes The bill, first introduced in 2023, would preserve a 40-acre section of land where, on Dec. 29, 1890, an ...

paints the massacre at Wounded Knee as “the point at which Indian culture and civilization died.” So, in his The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present, Treuer ...

In 1890 a bad drought brought more than the ... occupied the site of the Wounded Knee massacre to protest broken treaties and corrupt tribal governance. In response the tribal government formed ...

As the 134th commemoration of the Wounded Knee Massacre nears, efforts to protect the massacre site and review medals awarded to participating soldiers are in limbo. After years of activism by ...

The Defense Department has announced that it is officially reviewing 20 of the Medals of Honor awarded to men who fought against the Lakota in the engagement at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890.

She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.

The following morning, December 29, 1890 , the military ordered all Indian weapons ... only 25 white soldiers were killed. Two weeks after the Wounded Knee Massacre all other Ghost Dancers surrendered ...